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In Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, this town has 3,412 residents. Over-65s are 31% of the population.
Brassac-les-Mines’s strongest is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 3.6 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. The local economy is weaker than most (D): 0.9 jobs per working resident; 14.4% unemployment. Overall, that makes a B, good for #26 of 38 in Puy-de-Dôme. Nationally, it does better than just over three fifths of compared French towns. The rest of its grades are middling: B− for safety, B for schools and B for walkability.
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas. The overall grade uses the other six subjects.
Each subject compares Brassac-les-Mines with other French towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far its rank is from the middle. American and UK towns are graded separately.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 3 things Brassac-les-Mines does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Brassac-les-Mines as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Laurent, in Auzon, 2.9 mi away.
Explore the history →Nothing in Brassac-les-Mines is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Brassac-les-Mines.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Advertised rents are estimated at €8.80/m² a month, lower than both Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (€11.00/m²) and compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Estimated advertised rent for houses: €8.33/m² a month. Brassac-les-Mines recorded 159 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,324/m² | 157 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Those aged 15 to 24 account for 9.3% of residents. People 65 and over make up 31% of the town, higher than both Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (25%) and compared French towns (22%). Brassac-les-Mines has a median age of 50.6 years.
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Puy-de-Dôme 52.2%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Brassac-les-Mines | Puy-de-Dôme median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.3% | 9.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 22% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 26% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 31% | 25% | 22% |
| No diploma | 27% | 16% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 35% | 26% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 15% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 16% | 32% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Puy-de-Dôme median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Its care home for older people (89 places) counts its residents as Brassac-les-Mines’; allowing for it, deaths were 3% below expected. From 2016 to 2025, 582 residents of Brassac-les-Mines died, against 510 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 14% more. The nearest emergency department to Brassac-les-Mines is Centre hospitalier de Brioude, 8.8 mi away. For a family doctor, residents of Brassac-les-Mines can choose among 6 GPs.
Source: INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025; DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 · Licence Ouverte · Allowing for care homes is a TownRatings estimate, not a published statistic.
14.4% of the labour force were unemployed, higher than both Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (9.1%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Bus, tram or train carried 4.0% of working residents in Brassac-les-Mines to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
The bac pass rate near Brassac-les-Mines is 88.0%, below Puy-de-Dôme’s towns (92.5%) and compared French towns (92.9%) alike. The town’s pupils have a collège 1.1 mi away. The closest lycée for the general bac is 9.2 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Marguerite ThomasNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 65 | 91%−1 pt |
| Lycée professionnel François RabelaisNearest lycéeVocational lycée | Vocational lycée | 25 | 88%−2 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Brassac-les-Mines’s tally for 2025: 40 recorded offenses. Per 1,000 residents a year, there were 6.9 cases of violence against people and 15.4 graded property crimes (2023–2025 average). Among the graded crimes in the town, the most frequent was criminal damage (2025).
Not in the gradeTheft without violence, drug use and fraud are shown for information but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence plus burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and criminal damage per resident.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · When sexual violence, armed robbery, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (8.5% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Museums and heritage in and near Brassac-les-Mines. Best known first.
MuseumMusée de la mine de Brassac-les-Minesin townMuseumMuseumLa Virée d'Antan - Musée de la Locomotionin townChâteauChâteauChâteau d'Auzon4.6 km southeast, in AuzonChâteauChâteauChâteau Cocu3.9 km north, in Auzat-la-CombellePhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
One notable person was born in Brassac-les-Mines.
Commune in Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Brassac-les-Mines is a commune of 3,412 people in the Communauté d'agglomération Agglo Pays d'Issoire. TownRatings compares communes, France’s local unit: each has its own mayor and its own statistics. Its area takes in the town and the countryside around it.
Built from INSEE’s 2026 official geography (COG) and IGN Admin Express boundaries
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brassac-les-Mines | 3,412 | — | B | A | B− | C |
| Sainte-Florine Haute-Loire | 3,283 | 1 | A− | A | A− | C− |
| Brioude Haute-Loire | 6,527 | 8.9 | B− | A | D | B |
| Issoire | 15,115 | 9.5 | C+ | B | C− | C+ |
| Vic-le-Comte | 5,396 | 17 | A+ | A− | A | B− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades B− for safety, #26 of 38 in Puy-de-Dôme.
They grade B, better than 62% of compared French towns and #9 of 41 in Puy-de-Dôme. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Brassac-les-Mines grades A for cost of living.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · DGFiP, DVF property sales, July 2023 to June 2026 · Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025 · SSMSI, recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Ministry of Education (DEPP), brevet and bac results and value-added indicators, 2025 · INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses 2012–2023; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025 (care homes, emergency and maternity units, GPs, pharmacies); DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 (provisional) · INSEE, BPE 2025 and Filosofi 200 m grid (walking distances) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 9, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.